OCR Text |
Show FALLS J3T FEET; LIVES ' eSBSSSSSBSBMBasSBBBSSSSSBS - ( . Workman Drops From Great Height Into Water and Escapes Death. NEW YORK. ' Dec 28. Losing his balance while riveting on a girder at the top of the new Williamsburg bridge Charles Summerfleldr fell 137 feet through the air, turned four complete .somersaults and landed in the river, feet first, miraculously escaping death. He sustained serious injuries, but the doctors believe he will live. Summerfield, while stretching upward up-ward to put In a rivet, lost his footing and fell. As he went down he caught an ice-covered girder, .and held there suspended above the river for several seconds. ' . The workmen heard him cry for help, and one of them tried to gather up a rope to throw to him, .but before it could be slipped down Summerfield lost his bold. Capt Kalllster of the tug Fortuna saw the man fall and. headed for him at full speed. Just reaching him as he was sinking the third time. Eummerfleld is the fourth man to fall from the Williamsburg bridge, and is the only one who was not killed outright. out-right. Of these other three, two were suicides and one was killed accidentally. accidental-ly. . ....... |